Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-06-05
LITTLE WASHINGTON.
Decoration Day Observnnces General
Local News of the Week.

Decoration Day Observances -Gencral
! Local News Of the Week. .
Special TIcgram 10 The SDrddg Register.
WASHINGTON, PA, June 4.-DccOmtion
Day was by no means forgotten this yea
ny Washington people, and as the years 20
by the interest in memorial day if any
thing, seems to increase. Services were
held in the Opera House last Sunday after
noon, and an address delivered by the
Rev. Mullehen, of the Methodist church.
At 3 O'Clock Monday afternoon n line of
march was formed in front of the head
quarters of the VIM. +. Templet0n Post.
Shortly after l. o'clock the sky became
cloudy and it was feared it would rain
some time in the afternoon, which it did
Iust aS the parade was about to move 10
the cemetery. 1t ceased however in about
an hour and a line was again formed, and
in the following order they marched first
to the old graveyard-Rankin's COrnet
Band, Trinity Hall Cadets; VIM. +. Tenn
pleton Post, Il. a. T., Kirk Camp of Sons
Of Veterans, and Co. H., 10th Regiment,
n. e. L. Arriving ut the graveyard they
arranged themselves on both sides of the
graves, where Appropriate services were
held. The line was then reformed and
they marched down Main street TO the
cemetery. Services of Il like nature were
held here, and three volleys fired over the
graves.
In the evening the Grafton of the day
was delivered in the Opera House by Prof.
Wm. G. McClcllmd. lie spoke OF now
only a quarter Of century ago our South
ern brethren, n brave, generous hearted,
Christian people were infatuated by the
consequence of IN hereditary crime. 1t Is
always idle for us to attempt To measure
the amount or the extent of their response
bility.
at Is not ours tn scparat"
The tangled skrim of will and thl".
''ThrO' mist. resolve, mnd act the VIII,
A. moved 10y nnSCOu forces sui.
Blu guilty ar not guilty, those Southern
brethren of Onrs, nothing hut Il sound
threshing would do them any good, II
Heaven he praised they got it. All honor
To the brave men whose memory this day
would perpctuatc, the heroic remedy was
successfully applied. All honor to their
brave surviving comrades, the malady was
'u''' ny wv GU NulEtll VI WIZ. MI
honor, too, 10 sisters, wives and mothers,
who i'll their heart struggles the bitter con-
tests of love and duty, of affection with
conscience, gave the most noble manifesto
tions of heroic Self-Sacriiice Of all the many
in all those long years of strife.
The majority of the Washington mer-
chants have agreed TO close their respec-
tive stores during June, July and August,
Mt : O'Clock p. m, Saturdays excepted.
The dry goods merchants will close ut q
O'Clock.
Walter r. Mills lectured in the Court
House on Thursday evening last, his sub
iect was, Political Parties and Public
| Questions" il was under the auspices of
the students.
b. +. Adams, q Wheeling plummer, gas
and steam filter, will open up a branch
shop in the basement of C.. W. Adams
saddler store, in a few weeks.
The Pittsburgers were defeated in 4 game
Of ball by the w. and ]. College nine on
Decoration Day, score II to 7.
Rev. Ross Stevenson left last Tuesday
for Mcpherson, Kan, OIL a visit TO his son.
the Rev. Thos. j.. Stevenson.